Section: European Voice (EU)

An increasing number of British peopleÂ say the state of the economy is the most important issueÂ affecting confidence in the U.K., according to a consumerÂ survey. Some 28 percent of those polled namedÂ the economy as one of their top two concerns at the end of 2016, up from 12 percent in 2015, according to theÂ Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer...

The gut-churning bass of artillery rockets dispels the myth that a cease-fire is holding in eastern Ukraine, two years after the Minsk 2 agreement between Russian-backed separatists and pro-government forces was signed. At least 30 civilians died when the fighting escalated again in January, following what the government in Kiev described as an...

There’s been a visit to Brussels byÂ U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and tough Eurogroup talks on a Greek bailout, but this Commission midday briefing was mainly focused on what the commissioners got up to (or not) at the weekend. Asked about a heated exchange between Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans and Polish Foreign...

Seeking to reassure European allies unnerved by President Donald Trumpâs support for Brexit and criticism of NATO, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met with senior EU officials Monday and issued a strong statementÂ of solidarityÂ and commitment to working with the European Union. Pence, after a meeting with European Council President...

Belgium’sÂ Prime Minister Charles Michel said he used a dinner with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Brussels Sunday evening to warn the Trump administration against supporting any break-up of the EU. Pence arrived in Brussels Sunday after attending the Munich Security Conference, and was scheduled to meet senior EU officials on Monday....

MUNICH â When the visiting American dignitaries hammered home their desire for Europe to spend more on their militaries in recent days, their biggest target was the Continent’s richest nation â Germany. Washington’s pointed attacks on Berlin â whether over its open-door policy for refugeesÂ or its...

Whenever a new American president takes office, or even well beforehand, analysts and academics rush to discern their foreign policy âdoctrineââa grand theory that connects what might otherwise appear to be a Pollack-like splattering of dots. The Bush doctrine, for instance, was supposedly about the rejection...

U.K. ministers haveÂ clashed overÂ plans to divert billions of pounds of foreign aid spending toÂ eastern EUÂ countries, in exchange for support in the upcoming Brexit negotiations, the Sunday Times reported. Senior cabinet ministers and officials in Downing Street believe that the aidÂ used for wasteful projects in Asia and Africa from the...

LONDON â U.K. cabinet ministers and a foreign statesman are “courting”Â David Cameron to raise his hand to beÂ the next secretary general of NATO, according to people familiar with the situation. Barely half a year since stepping down as prime minister, Cameron has held what one British official calledÂ...

MUNICH â U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has delivered a message of solidarity to Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko said Friday. In a conversation on Friday afternoon, Tillerson âconfirmed to me our unity â¦ and our solidarity,â Poroshenko said during a panel discussionÂ on Friday evening at this...